Category: NAB
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If 2009 Is Watershed Year for 3D Cinema, 2010 Will Be Same for 3DTV
Chris Chinnock, President of consultation and market research firm Insight Media predicted that 2010 will be a “watershed year for 3DTV.”
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President Obama Pushes Through Bill to Delay Digital TV Switch
After some stonewalling from the Republicans in Senate, President Obama managed to push through and sign a bill delaying the transition from analog to digital signals for television broadcast in the United States in order to give people more time to prepare for the irrevocable transition.
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On February 17th, 2009 Your TV Will No Longer Work
The government was set to issue $40 vouchers for every household towards the cost of the new digital set top converter that would replace the old analog antenna that we have seen in so many John Hughes films. The campaign for awareness of this fundamental transition did alright, but penetration hasn’t been nearly as high…
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Top SAG Actors Oppose Guild’s Bid to Strike
Recent stories from the Associated Press are relaying strong opposition from the very actors the guild represents to the proposed vote to strike as negotiations continue between the powerful American actors’ guild and the AMPTA that represents the producers. The actors feel that the already bleak production landscape created by the ongoing struggle would be…
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the britney block and the erosion of n american media
It is a form of insanity, what the Buddha would call hardcore addiction were he to use the vernacular. We are in a riptide of obsessive compulsive behavior that has left mainstream media culturally bankrupt; everything is post-source to a degree that we are mashing up a mashup culture. Every news source now has a…